Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott (4 November 1957-) was Prime Minister of Australia from 18 September 2013 to 15 September 2015, succeeding Kevin Rudd and preceding Malcolm Turnbull. He was leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2009 to 2015, and he served in the Australian Parliament as the MP for Warringah from 1994 to 2019.

Biography
Anthony John Abbott was born in London, England in 1957 to a British father and an Australian mother, and he moved to Sydney at the age of two. He briefly trained as a Catholic seminarian before working as a journalist, manager, and political advisor, and he became a monarchist. In 1994, he was elected to Parliament as the Liberal Party of Australia MP for Warringah, and he served in various cabinet positions before becoming leader of the Liberal Party (and therefore Leader of the Opposition) in 2009. In 2013, he led the Liberal-National Coalition to victory against the Australian Labor Party government of Kevin Rudd, and he repealed the carbon tax, signed free trade agreements with Japan, South Korea, and China, repealed 10,000 "red tape" union regulations, won a near-death leadership spill in 2015, and supported the traditional definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. Abbott, unpopular for his traditionalist views, was challenged in a leadership election by Malcolm Turnbull in 2015, leading to his resignation. He lost his Parliament seat in 2019.